A Camp Lejeune Marine was charged with murder and is under suicide watch in the Onslow County Jail late Wednesday after his infant son died earlier in the day.

Two-month-old Deklin John King spent his final moments in a hospital bed after doctors removed life support at 11 a.m. Wednesday. By 1 p.m., he was dead.

His father Sgt. Jordan Thomas King, who was in jail on a child abuse count, was charged by the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office with an open count of murder. He was previously charged with intentional child abuse inflicting serious injury.

King, 27, is an electrical systems technician with Combat Logistics Battalion 22, according to base officials. He joined the Corps in 2008.

He has two sons with Amanda Eversole. Deklin was born Nov. 18, according to the Onslow County Register of Deeds.

In 2010, King purchased a home on Kennebec Lane in Winding River Estates, a subdivision outside Richlands.

King stands accused of fracturing his son’s skull in two places and causing severe bruising on the back of his head, according to arrest warrants.

Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown said toddlers often receive those types of injuries because they are crying and a frustrated parent loses his or her temper.

“I would suggest to parents that before they reach that stage of anger that they call a friend, family member or anyone to help calm them down,” Brown said.

King was under special watch and being kept in an anti-suicide smock Wednesday night, according an official involved in the case.

Jacksonville lawyer Wally Paramore is temporarily representing King until he hires or is court-appointed an attorney. Paramore said King is distraught over his son’s death.

“He is very upset over this,” Paramore said. “I’ve spoken to his family and they are very broken up as well.”

The case began around 5 p.m. Friday at the NavalHospital when staff reported to authorities that an abused child had been brought to the hospital by his father. The child was airlifted from NavalHospital to VidantMedicalCenter in Greenville on Friday and immediately placed on life support.

After an investigation aided by NCIS agents, Sgts. Lucinda Hernandez and Robert Spade, detectives with the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office, arrested King on Saturday. He was released on a $25,000 bond.

At his first appearance Monday morning, the presiding judge upped King’s bond to $500,000. King is now being held without bond with a court appearance set for 11 a.m. Thursday.

Contact Daily News Senior Reporter Lindell Kay at 910-219-8455 or lindell.kay@jdnews.com. Follow him on Twitter and friend him on Facebook @ 1lindell.

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Updated at 6:03 p.m.

Authorities say that at approximately 5 p.m. on Feb. 8, the medical staff at the Naval Hospital called the Onslow County Sheriff's Office to report a child abuse case.

Detective Sgt. Lucinda Hernandez and Detective Sgt. Robert Spade were assigned to investigate the case, according to information from the OCSO. Both detectives spoke with the hospital medical person on the matter and were told the father, Jordan King, had brought the child to the hospital. Jordan King was at the hospital and so was the two month old when the detectives arrived.

That afternoon, the infant was air lifted to Pitt Memorial.

Detectives interviewed Jordan King. Naval Criminal Investigative Services aboard Camp Lejeune assisted the sheriff’s office detectives. Information developed from the interview that produced probable cause sufficient to support charging Jordan King with felony child abuse of intentionally inflicting serious physical injury. Detectives escorted Jordan King before the magistrate to have a criminal warrant issued. He was incarcerated in jail under a $25,000 bond and was bonded out of jail Saturday morning at approximately 7 a.m.

Jordan King’s bond was increased to $500,000 during his first court appearance.

On Friday, when the two month old arrived at the Pitt Memorial Hospital, the receiving medical staff immediately placed him on a life support system. The physical injuries involved major damage to the vital organs to such extent that the future life of the victim could not be sustained without the life support system.

At 11 a.m. today, the life support system was removed. At 1 p.m. the infant died.

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A Richlands man charged with child abuse over the weekend has been charged with murder in his son's death.

Jordan Thomas King, 27, of Kennebec Lane, was charged Wednesday with murder in the death of two-month-old Deklin John King, according to warrants.

King was accused of fracturing the infant's skull in two places and causing severe bruising on the back of the head, according to warrants.